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I was able to learn a bit about Iran's Kurdish minority through my friendship with classical musician Kayhan Kalhor, a virtuoso of the kamanche (an early predecessor to the violin).
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I was able to learn a bit about Iran's Kurdish minority through my friendship with classical musician Kayhan Kalhor, a virtuoso of the kamanche (an early predecessor to the violin).
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I've never seen them live, but on their recordings they summon both bracing sorrow and surprising ebullience with their radiant sound, creating driving unison patterns and occasional kaleidoscopic counterpoint with a dense tangle of instruments: oud, santur (hammer dulcimer), tar and setar (varieties of lute), kamanche and ghaychak (types of fiddle), and hand percussion.
unknown title 2009
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